Be Aware: Jody Blogs

“It’s not enough for me to let you know I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and I don’t feel good.

I want to give you details, about an astonishing variety of stultifying symptoms that are real life-stoppers. And I want you to be haunted by a chronic with a face. If it’s me, well and good. If it’s someone else that’s fine too.

But somehow people have to be touched by this devastator and destroyer. We are a huge part of the population, and yet nobody hears about us.”

“My son Jesse and I went to my mom’s for an early Mother’s Day visit this afternoon. Though we only live a three minute drive away from her, this is the first time since around Christmas that Jesse has been able to make this trip.

I have been over to see her a few times since the New Year, but only a couple of times. It has been probably about two months since I’ve been to her house.

Jesse and I both have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. We are both recovering at our own rates. Each of us has different symptoms. But there is a core commonality to our lack of stamina, brain fog, and neurological disturbances.”